The statue was inspired by Belfast painter William Conor's depiction of mill workers, then known as 'shawlies'.

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She initially assumed autism, but found more clues in this portrait of Peter, by court painter William Kent, that hangs in Kensington Palace.

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It is as though an artist such as Picasso, whose father was a failed painter, or William James, whose father was a failed essayist, or V.

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In 1757, William Blake, the English poet, painter and engraver, was born.

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William Bailey, a top-notch painter, printmaker and respected professor of art at Yale University, has been on the art scene since the late 1960s.

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Mr. WILLIAM PAJAUD (Artist): I've been a painter since I was seven years old, and I'm now 80, so I've been working at it a long time, and I still don't know it.

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Palmer was a 19th century English painter, largely self-taught, whose early landscapes were touched with a visionary quality influenced by William Blake.

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